Saturday 13 August 2011

Colour from the Season - Honesty seed pod cream

Honesty seed pods are ripening, they've turned from their unripe shade of green to multi colour deep purples, reds, green yellows and gradating tints of of cream. Soon they will become the parchment thin, transparent discs for which the plants are mainly grown - though it seems to me that this in-between stage is especially attractive...
























































(the flowering colours of Honesty can be seen on my April blog posting here)

...from my seasonal colour sample notebook.